IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucyrus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007OK115115
  • User Pedon ID: S2007OK115115
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Bucyrus Newtonia project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19517
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.8873482
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7723923
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 630 feet north and 830 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Mora Ranch
  • Map Unit: NaB—Newtonia silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK115—Ottawa
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OK115—Ottawa County, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36094-H7—Picher, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Sheila Staton-Clifton, Katie Philbrick, Wm. Wehmueller, Cleveland Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 115
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucyrus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—38

    38—200

    51—200

    —38—

    —162—

    —149—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    3

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    249

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00171; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00172; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-12-20 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00173; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392303; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392303
    Bt2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face clay; 49 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 60 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 3 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-12-20 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00174; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 392304; continuous - phpvsfiid 392304
    Bt3—86 to 120 centimeters (33.9 to 47.2 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay; 52 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 75 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-12-20 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 20-45-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00175; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 392305; continuous - phpvsfiid 392305
    Bt4—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face clay; 56 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds and 80 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 20-45-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 08N00176; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392307; continuous - phpvsfiid 392306; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392307; continuous - phpvsfiid 392306